Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1887-11-13
rnE conDxaNED AnAnca.


made 70 the SaPrene Court Of the
United StAtsS in which various ex-
captions we're taken 70 several vital
points in the trial aud II VAS hoped
that the highest legal tribunal would
grant the application tor = writ Of err
rot, based upon tho uucOnstitutionality
Of the jury laws Of the State Of Illinois.
On Wednesday Chief Justice Waite de-
livered the opinion Of the Court deny
ing the application, closing his remarks
with these words: ''The writ of error
prayed for must consequently be de.
MED" The only remaining thread up
ON which to hang . faint hope is
through executive e~lenency. buiiu view
OF all that has been done. aud the late
decision Of the Supreme Court it is
scarcely probable that Governor ogles-
by will assume the responsibility Of in-
terfefing with execution Of sentence.
A brief account Of the circumstances
which led to the arrest and conviction
Of the chief conspirAtors will be Of
interest to many Sho have forgotten
them. .n-
A early az the Summer Of 1886 meet
ings were held both openly and secret
~ by n number Of persons who were led
by . few men of the DeDuis Kearny
siripe and At least two newspapers were
published in the city of Chicago advo-
eating the principles Of These defyers Of
Law and order.
The Inauguration OF the eight hour
movement on May l, 1856, was the OPP
p~ortunity for the anarchist leaders. and
they were not slow to avail themselves
OF it. There was q strike in the Nc
Cormick Reaper Works. also among the
furnitnre-workers, and there were 5000
llmbennen walking the streets in idle
ness.
A meeting WAS called TO be held at
the HAymarket, on Randolph street, on
May 4, 1886. A most inceudiAry docu-
ment. written by August Spies, was
hoated about the city, announcing the
nature OF the meeting and calling upon
working people to arm themselves aud
march against thei. ''capitalistic en-
Smies." Al 8 o'clock a large crowd
had collected IN the Haymarket, md
the quiethess that prrcedes a storm pre-
vailed. The police were ready. Every
preparation had been made to protect
the city against the desperate men.
Spies was the first speaker, and he
gained applause for his incendiary ut
terances. Next came A II. Parsons,
who vas followed by Sam Fielding.
His blatant uttefances were OF the most
sanguinary nature. and caused the mob
to howl. He spoke until 1920 T. NJ.
Mt which time $50 police officers from a
station ear at land marched to the
scene. The speaker paused, and the
platoons Of police closed about the
wagon from which he was speaking
Captain Ward, in charge, called out:
''In the name OF the people Of Illinois
/ command this crowd to disperse."
With that order, as il it were a signal,
. spark was seen to circle over the
speakers wagon and fall In the midst Of
the police. It was the terrible dynamite
bomb. An explosion followed and
twenty-nine people went to the ground.
bleeding and mangIed. Then followed
= scene that may be understood only by
those who were there. Desperate men,
bad women and police officers struggling
ss II great mass in the darkened local
we're clear when it was discovered that
about one hundred people had been
wounded, and SIXTY Of them we're po-
loomen. The martyr who wRs killed
on the spot WAS Officer Matthias Degsu,
aud his comrades who we'll torn TO
pieces and subsequently died. we're
George Miller. Timothy FlAviu, Erls
Hansen, Thomas Redden, John ]. Bar
Tett and Michael Sheahan.
OF the men who were arrested for the
Hsymsrket outrage. it appears that
only n vas m American. and he il
Alfred r. Parsons, a native Of Texas,
who had moved to Chicago about twelve
years before. His wife has shown that
Hhe IL more Of an anarchist than her
husband.
In 1S47 Samuel Fielding was born in
Lancashire. England. lie became q
Methodist preacher IN his own country,
which he left in 1866 for the United
States. He liv d In Cleveland, O., be.
foro going to Chicago.
August spies is n German, having
been born In F~iejewald. in the prov.
ince OF Hesse, in 1856. He is a man
Of some education.
George Rngle Is also a native Of Ger.
many. in which country he was born in
1889.
Michael sehvab is a Bavarian by
birth, and is 81 years OF age.
The youngest OF the condemned men
II L. uis Lingg, aged 81 yeurs. aud q
native Of Germany. .|I" p.
Adolph Fischer is a native Of Ger
many, and ~ years OF ngc. lie IL a
printer by trade, and has been Ia This
country about thirteen years.
Oscar ". Neebe escaped with n s,n
isnOo Of fifteen years in the psniton.-
tiary. He wns boTu in New York. Of
German parents, in 1850. and he